NS Cliches: Rebooted

by **Hispida** » Mon May 23, 2022 5:00 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Karazicu wrote:I sort of relate to this. Original plans for this nation was going to be an island nation in Southeast Asia that is basically Singapore on steroids, but because I listened to this song too much, I ended up with a name that doesn't fit a Southeast Asian nation. However, I decided to try and relieve this issue by sort of shaping my nation around the name, making it a more Balkan nation, like the one you see in my lore right now, which I think helps quite a bit with making the name that suits the canon.

I'm in the same position. I really wanted to name my nation Red Lake, but because that name was already taken, I just added "circle" onto the end. Now I'm really wishing I'd just buckled down and named my nation Laguzrauth...

a while ago i had a puppet where the alternate history was "what if gorbachev succeeded". of course "union of sovereign soviet republics" was taken, so i went with "union of sovereign states and republics".

still not a bad name, honestly.

by **Gandoor** » Tue May 24, 2022 1:19 am

Aikoland is called that because 'Aiko' was part of my old online username from when I was like 13 to 16 years old lol. (I made that nation when I was 15 btw)

Unfortunately that means the very much Francophone nation it is now has the whole 'kind of Japanese-sounding name' to it which eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

by **Valentine Z** » Tue May 24, 2022 1:21 am

There is a world out there where I managed to get the name "Valentine" instead of adding a Z behind.

Though of course, since it was created in 2015, it bears mentioning that the Z isn't tied in any way to the Ukraine-Russian affairs; just part of my name.

And no relations to zombies, either. Valentine Z, no zombies like World War Z.

by **Gandoor** » Tue May 24, 2022 1:22 am

Yeah but is it Valentine Zee or Valentine Zed?

by **Valentine Z** » Tue May 24, 2022 1:23 am

Gandoor wrote:Yeah but is it Valentine Zee or Valentine Zed?

I like the former better, has a bit more ring to it, y'know?

IRL I used both Zee and Zed interchangeably, much to the confusion of people.

by **A m e n r i a** » Tue May 24, 2022 1:40 am

Drongonia wrote:Cliche: People/nations who come on and make large projects (RPs, indexes, factbooks etc) and just leave them rotting and abandoned within six months.

No I'm not talking about me I'm trying ok D:

Ouch.

Pupax Portiis wrote:
Naming your nation before you really know what you want it to be, and then not wanting to start a new nation just to rename it because then it would be redundant, but having a name you're stuck with despite it being a misnomer that doesn't really fit the canon.

Made the nation as a teenager, the name is still relevant after years.

by **-Astoria-** » Tue May 24, 2022 2:27 am

Pupax Portiis wrote:
Naming your nation before you really know what you want it to be, and then not wanting to start a new nation just to rename it because then it would be redundant, but having a name you're stuck with despite it being a misnomer that doesn't really fit the canon.

Or, in my case, having to rename a nation due to someone already having claimed it, but the second half still counts.

by **Diarcesia** » Tue May 24, 2022 8:15 am

Drongonia wrote:Cliche: People/nations who come on and make large projects (RPs, indexes, factbooks etc) and just leave them rotting and abandoned within six months.

No I'm not talking about me I'm trying ok D:

That's not a cliche. That's a touche.

by **Diarcesia** » Tue May 24, 2022 8:16 am

Valentine Z wrote:There is a world out there where I managed to get the name "Valentine" instead of adding a Z behind.

Though of course, since it was created in 2015, it bears mentioning that the Z isn't tied in any way to the Ukraine-Russian affairs; just part of my name.

And no relations to zombies, either. Valentine Z, no zombies like World War Z.

"West Valentine" if it's Slavic.

by **The African Emirates** » Tue May 24, 2022 11:00 am

Pupax Portiis wrote:
Naming your nation before you really know what you want it to be, and then not wanting to start a new nation just to rename it because then it would be redundant, but having a name you're stuck with despite it being a misnomer that doesn't really fit the canon.

I've eventually embraced the name to perpetually confuse everyone on this site.

by **Diarcesia** » Tue May 24, 2022 6:37 pm

Farallon wrote:Political figures or anime characters on flags.

So... uhm... someone created an anime flag for me.

by **Reich of the New World Order** » Tue May 24, 2022 6:38 pm

Did you pay them

by **Diarcesia** » Tue May 24, 2022 6:38 pm

Reich of the New World Order wrote:Did you pay them

No. They volunteered. I guess I paid with time? Removed the background around the character.

by **Reich of the New World Order** » Tue May 24, 2022 6:40 pm

I though someone drew the character for you

by **Frisemark** » Tue May 24, 2022 7:24 pm

Gandoor wrote:Yeah but is it Valentine Zee or Valentine Zed?

Anyone who pronounces Z as Zed (Yes British people I mean you) deserves to be force fed chicken feet

….depending on your tastes that’s more of a reward. Might need to rethink that punishment.

by **Alliance of Self-Defensive Territories** » Tue May 24, 2022 7:44 pm

All you people out here with Zee vs Zed. I stand proud by pronouncing it "Zey"

by **Gandoor** » Tue May 24, 2022 7:56 pm

Frisemark wrote:
Gandoor wrote:Yeah but is it Valentine Zee or Valentine Zed?

Anyone who pronounces Z as Zed (Yes British people I mean you) deserves to be force fed chicken feet

….depending on your tastes that’s more of a reward. Might need to rethink that punishment.

I mean I'm pretty sure every single language outside of American English pronounces it 'zed' (or at least uses a pronunciation based upon the Greek 'zeta').

At least we can agree that either zee or zed is better than fuckin izzard.

by **-Astoria-** » Tue May 24, 2022 10:35 pm

Frisemark wrote:
Gandoor wrote:Yeah but is it Valentine Zee or Valentine Zed?

Anyone who pronounces Z as Zed (Yes British people I mean you) deserves to be force fed chicken feet

….depending on your tastes that’s more of a reward. Might need to rethink that punishment.

Daily reminder that literally everyone aside from America uses 'zed', so unless you have a bottomless bucket of feet...

Gandoor wrote:I mean I'm pretty sure every single language outside of American English pronounces it 'zed' (or at least uses a pronunciation based upon the Greek 'zeta').

At least we can agree that either zee or zed is better than fuckin izzard.

Fourth option: 'zzz' (as in 'buzz').

by **Drakonk** » Tue May 24, 2022 11:14 pm

But isn’t this pronunciation more like you say it inside of an word not as an letter?

by **A m e n r i a** » Wed May 25, 2022 12:03 am

-Astoria- wrote:
Frisemark wrote:
Anyone who pronounces Z as Zed (Yes British people I mean you) deserves to be force fed chicken feet

….depending on your tastes that’s more of a reward. Might need to rethink that punishment.

Daily reminder that literally everyone aside from America uses 'zed', so unless you have a bottomless bucket of feet...

Which is exactly why we need to uno reverse card him

by **Gonswanza** » Wed May 25, 2022 1:12 am

A m e n r i a wrote:
-Astoria- wrote:Daily reminder that literally everyone aside from America uses 'zed', so unless you have a bottomless bucket of feet...

Which is exactly why we need to uno reverse card him

But that would only give him another turn, do you not know how UNO cards work?

by **A m e n r i a** » Wed May 25, 2022 1:31 am

Gonswanza wrote:
A m e n r i a wrote:
Which is exactly why we need to uno reverse card him

But that would only give him another turn, do you not know how UNO cards work?

Goddammit I just realized.

by **Civia Welephilostopia** » Wed May 25, 2022 1:42 am

Pupax Portiis wrote:
Naming your nation before you really know what you want it to be, and then not wanting to start a new nation just to rename it because then it would be redundant, but having a name you're stuck with despite it being a misnomer that doesn't really fit the canon.

Uses random name,
Refuses to elaborate,
Leaves.

by **Valentine Z** » Wed May 25, 2022 2:31 am

Alliance of Self-Defensive Territories wrote:All you people out here with Zee vs Zed. I stand proud by pronouncing it "Zey"

Valentine Zey sounds like a pop song band.

by **Soviet Progonya** » Wed May 25, 2022 6:30 am

Pupax Portiis wrote:
Naming your nation before you really know what you want it to be, and then not wanting to start a new nation just to rename it because then it would be redundant, but having a name you're stuck with despite it being a misnomer that doesn't really fit the canon.

Holy shit this, or rather like. Redesigning your nation and all the lore, wanting to change the name of your nation but not doing so because then no one on the forum would recognise you. I'm stuck with Soviet Progonya which I do like a lot, I just wish it didn't have "Soviet" in it because that's a relic from its long gone ussr clone days.

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